"Odo the Good Marquis Odo (or Eudes) the Good Marquis (""fl."" 11th century) was an Italo-Norman nobleman who ruled an unknown region of southern Italy. He married Emma, a daughter of Robert Guiscard, and they had at least three sons, Tancred and William, both famous crusaders, and Robert, as well as a daughter (name unknown) who married Richard of Salerno. Odo is known only in connection to his wife and sons. There are many sources that identify Tancred's father as a margrave (Latin ""marchio"" or ""marchisus"", whence marquis)—which is enough to confirm that he was an Italian—but do not name"
"other major Western noble titles, marquess (and marquis) is sometimes used to render certain titles in non-Western languages with their own traditions, even though they are, as a rule, historically unrelated and thus hard to compare. However, they are considered ""equivalent"" in relative rank. This is the case with: Marquess A marquess (; , ) is a nobleman of hereditary rank in various European peerages and in those of some of their former colonies. The term is also used to translate equivalent Asian styles, as in imperial China and Japan. In the German lands, a margrave was a ruler of"
"Marquess A marquess (; , ) is a nobleman of hereditary rank in various European peerages and in those of some of their former colonies. The term is also used to translate equivalent Asian styles, as in imperial China and Japan. In the German lands, a margrave was a ruler of an immediate Imperial territory (examples include the Margrave of Brandenburg, the Margrave of Baden and the Margrave of Bayreuth), not simply a nobleman like a marquess or marquis in Western and Southern Europe. German rulers did not confer the title of marquis; holders of marquisates in Central Europe were"
"Marquis (film) Marquis is a 1989 French-language film, produced in Belgium and France, based on the life and writings of the Marquis de Sade. All the actors wear animal masks, and their voices are dubbed. There are a few scenes involving clay animation. The film was a project by French cartoonist Roland Topor who earlier delivered the imagery for the animated cult classic ""La Planète Sauvage (1973)"". The tagline used in the US release was, ""A bizarre tale of sex, lust, and the French Revolution."" In pre-revolutionary France, the canine Marquis de Sade sits in jail working on his writing"
"France. Meanwhile, the revolutionaries prepare to stage a coup and depose the king, under the lead of Juliette de Titane, an equine noble. Several of the inmates are also political prisoners leading to several failed escape attempts which land the inmates in the Bastille dungeon. They are eventually freed, however, by the revolutionaries. Colin eventually falls in love with Juliette and runs away with her to continue the revolution, leaving the Marquis to continue his writing and to muse about his life in peace. Marquis (film) Marquis is a 1989 French-language film, produced in Belgium and France, based on the"
"Marquis (magazine) Marquis is a fetish magazine owned, operated, published and primarily photographed by Peter W. Czernich and Sandra Würdig. Based in Germany, Marquis covers a wide array of topics related to the worldwide fetish subculture. The magazine's name is a reference to the Marquis de Sade. Czernich's original publishing venture entitled ""«O»"" began as a spin-off of the British ""Skin Two"" magazine but quickly developed its own identity. After losing the right to the ""«O»"" name, Czernich created ""Marquis"" in 1994. It has continued to be published semiannually-to-quarterly ever since. A spin-off title, ""Heavy Rubber"", began in 1996. Czernich"
"of the margrave in Europe's nobilities is the marquis, also introduced in countries that never had any margraviates, such as the British marquess; their languages may use one or two words, e.g. French or . The ""margrave/marquis"" ranked below its nation's equivalent of ""duke"" (Britain, France, Germany, Portugal, Scandinavia, Spain) or of ""prince"" (Belgium, Italy), but above ""count"" or ""earl"". The wife of a margrave is a ""margravine"" ( in German, but in French). In Germany and Austria, where titles were borne by all descendants in the male line of the original grantee, men and women alike, each daughter was"
"France along with maquis, which are known elsewhere in the Mediterranean region as matorral and ""tomillares"" in Spain, macchia in Italy, ""phrygana"" in Greece, ""garig"" in Croatia, and ""batha"" in Israel. In California a similar Mediterranean climate ecoregion is named chaparral; in Chile it is named the Chilean matorral; in South Africa it is named fynbos; and in Australia it is named mallee. All are in the Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub biome. Both garigue and maquis are associated with the Mediterranean climate within the Mediterranean region. However, the distinction is not clear and term use is inconsistent. Maquis shrubland"
"a as each son was a . The title of ""margrave"" is translated below in languages which distinguish ""margrave"" from ""marquis"", the latter being the English term for a Continental noble of rank equivalent to a British marquess. In languages which sometimes use ""marquis"" to translate ""margrave"", that fact is indicated below in parentheses): Margrave Margrave was originally the medieval title for the military commander assigned to maintain the defense of one of the border provinces of the Holy Roman Empire or of a kingdom. That position became hereditary in certain feudal families in the Empire, and the title came"
"The Marquis (comics) The Marquis is an American independent comic book series written and illustrated by Guy Davis, released by Oni Press and Dark Horse Comics. ""The Marquis"" was originally published by Caliber Comics where the ""Les Preludes"" issue appeared in 1997, followed by the rest of the ""Danse Macabre"" series from Oni Comics in 2000. This was followed by a one-shot and a two-issue miniseries in 2002-2003. Davis will be finishing the story he started at Dark Horse Comics, where he was working on ""B.P.R.D."" from 2003 to 2011. He said: The ultimate plan is to make ""The Marquis"""
"in his own right. The spelling of the title in a few older Scottish cases is ""Marquis"", particularly when the title was created prior to the formation of the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707. A British marquess is entitled to a coronet bearing four strawberry leaves (three visible) and four silver balls (or pearls) around the rim (two visible). The actual coronet is worn mostly on certain ceremonial occasions, but a marquess can bear his coronet of rank on his coat of arms above the shield. Marquesses in the United Kingdom Marquess is a rank of nobility in the"
"Examples include Cristóbal Martínez-Bordiú, 10th Marquis of Villaverde The honorific prefix ""The Most Honourable"" is a form of address that precedes the name of a marquess or marchioness in the United Kingdom. In Great Britain and historically in Ireland, the correct spelling of the aristocratic title of this rank is marquess (although for aristocratic titles on the European mainland, the French spelling of marquis is often used in English). In Scotland the French spelling is also sometimes used. In Great Britain and historically in Ireland, the title ranks below a duke and above an earl (see ""Marquesses in the United"
"Marquise, Pas-de-Calais Marquise is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France. Marquise is a farming, quarrying and light industrial town, situated some northeast of Boulogne, at the junction of the D191, D231 and D238 roads. The river Slack flows through the commune, as too does the A16 autoroute. Part of the Flemish-speaking territory until 1346, Marquise became an English county under King Edward III after the battle of Crécy and the hexagonal bell-tower goes back to the English period. In 1420, in the suburbs of Marquise, at Leulinghen, the church of which was divided by"
"Marrubiu. The Marquis had full judicial authority both in civil and criminal cases within the fief (""mero e misto imperio"") and owned the fief as an allod. Sardinian feudal titles could be granted ""more Italiae"" (""according to the use of Italy"") or ""more Cathaluniae"" (""according to the use of Catalonia""), and the main difference was the inheritance through males only (as today for most English titles) or males and females (as today for the British Crown). Although usually grants were ""more Italiae"", most fiefs successions were later extended to females in case of lack of males. This was also the"
"also found on the shields of the Gendarmerie Martinique, which gives it the nickname of ""colonial police"" [ref. necessary]. The snakes are fer-de-lance vipers (""Bothrops lanceolatus"", French ""trigonocéphale"") native to Martinique. Flag of Martinique Martinique, an overseas territorial collectivity of France located in the Caribbean, has no flag with official status other than the French national flag. This flag features a white cross like St George’s cross on a blue background filled in with a white snake in each quarters. It is used sometimes by the French military on their buildings and/or uniforms. Gendarmes bear the Coat of Arms version"
"March (territorial entity) A march or mark was, in broad terms, a medieval European term for any kind of borderland, as opposed to a notional ""heartland"". More specifically, a march was a border between realms, and/or a neutral/buffer zone under joint control of two states, in which different laws might apply. In both of these senses, marches served a political purpose, such as providing warning of military incursions, or regulating cross-border trade, or both. Just as counties were traditionally ruled by counts, marches gave rise to titles such as marquess (masculine) or marchioness (feminine) in England, marquis (masculine) or marquise"
"branch of the military independent of the Army, Navy and Air Force. Besides performing military duties, the ""Marechaussee"" is also a gendarmerie force. The word ""Marechaussee"" seems to derive from the old French name ""Marecheaux"" given to an ancient court of justice in Paris called the ""Tribunal of Constables and Marshals of France"". These constables and marshals were to become members of the Gendarmerie, which served as a model for the police forces of both Belgium and the Netherlands. The term ""Marechaussee"" was also used for the Continental Army's military police during the American Revolution. In Norway, military police are"
"largely associated with the Italian and Spanish crowns. The word ""marquess"" entered the English language from the Old French ""marchis"" (""ruler of a border area"") in the late 13th or early 14th century. The French word was derived from ""marche"" (""frontier""), itself descended from the Middle Latin ""marca"" (""frontier""), from which the modern English words ""march"" and ""mark"" also descend. The distinction between governors of frontier territories and interior territories was made as early as the founding of the Roman Empire when some provinces were set aside for administration by the senate and more unpacified or vulnerable provinces were administered"
"in the feminine form ""tamurt"". The same word ""mur"" appears in Mauretania, the North African kingdom from antiquity, although the link remains controversial as this name possibly originates from μαύρος ""mavros"", the ancient Greek word for black. The common English spelling is ""Marrakesh"", although ""Marrakech"" (the French spelling) is also widely used. The name is spelt ""Mṛṛakc"" in the Berber Latin alphabet, ""Marraquexe"" in Portuguese, ""Marraquech"" in Spanish, and ""Mer-raksh"" in Moroccan Arabic. From medieval times until around the beginning of the 20th century, the entire country of Morocco was known as the ""Kingdom of Marrakesh"", as the kingdom's historic"
"form. De Galle combats these entities with his sabre and a pair of specially built, anachronistic machine guns. While ostensibly a horror-action comic, ""The Marquis"" analyses personal and religious issues through the conflicted character of de Galle, and has been received well by critics and comics professionals including Mike Mignola and Stan Sakai for both its content and Davis's detailed and disturbing artwork. To date, two trade paperbacks have been released by Oni Press and one volume collecting all prior material published by Dark Horse. The Marquis (comics) The Marquis is an American independent comic book series written and illustrated"
"the title Marquis of Lista to Hugo Octavius Accoramboni of Florence in Italy. Apparently the Marquis of Lista died without issue. In 1710, the same king granted the title Marquis of Mandal to Francisco di Ratta and to the latter's nephews Giuseppe di Ratta and Luigi di Ratta of Bologna in Italy. In Norway, official recognition of this title was abolished under the 1821 Nobility Law. In Denmark it seems to have lasted until 1890. Norway remains the only country in Scandinavia where the title of marquis has been granted. There are two primary periodical reviews of Danish nobility: Danish"
"Marquisate was a title first awarded by king Philip II of Spain, to his ancestor Luis Méndez de Haro y Sotomayor, 1st Marquis of Carpio on 20 October 1559. Coat of Arms of the Basque ""de Haro"" family, as well as the Galician ""de Sotomayor"" branch connected to the lords of, and later, Marquisses of, since 1559, of Carpio, province of Córdoba. Sometimes, the Marquis title, 2nd and 4th, had been transmitted by the family females and inheritors under the jure uxoris principle to other ""de Haro"" untitled males, their male sons from such marriages carrying thus the title forwards"
"Kingdom""). A woman with the rank of a marquess, or the wife of a marquess, is called a marchioness in Great Britain and Ireland or a marquise elsewhere in Europe. The dignity, rank or position of the title is referred to as a marquisate or marquessate. The theoretical distinction between a marquess and other titles has, since the Middle Ages, faded into obscurity. In times past, the distinction between a count and a marquess was that the land of a marquess, called a march, was on the border of the country, while a count's land, called a county, often was"
"Marquis, ""Ba"" Count, ""Tu"" Viscount, ""Nam"" Baron and ""Vinh phong"" noble. Non-European royal and noble ranks Some titles of nobility outside Europe may be considered as equivalents of Duke. Like other major Western noble titles, Duke is sometimes used to render (translate) certain titles in non-western languages. ""Duke"" is used even though those titles are generally etymologically and often historically unrelated and thus hard to compare. However, they are considered roughly equivalent, especially in hierarchic aristocracies such as feudal Japan, useful as an indication of relative rank. In the most general of terms, Gong (Wade-Giles Kung （公） was the hereditary"
"south and east in (for example) the Kuban and in Siberia, forming (for example) the Black Sea Cossack Host, the Kuban Cossack Host and the Amur Cossack Host. Attribution: March (territorial entity) A march or mark was, in broad terms, a medieval European term for any kind of borderland, as opposed to a notional ""heartland"". More specifically, a march was a border between realms, and/or a neutral/buffer zone under joint control of two states, in which different laws might apply. In both of these senses, marches served a political purpose, such as providing warning of military incursions, or regulating cross-border"
"a special place in her heart reserved only for her unlikely spouse. Set in seventeenth century France, the film was shot on location in Lombardy and Emilia-Romagna, Italy, from September through December 1996. ""Marquise"" was released on 20 August 1997 in France, and on 12 September 1997 in the United States. The film received generally positive reviews, with ""Variety"" magazine's Lisa Nesselson calling it ""entertaining without being taxing"", and Paul Fischer on the Urban Cinefile website calling it ""masterful entertainment on a grand scale, an intelligent and fascinating insight into 17th century French society"". ""Marquise"" was nominated for the AFI"
"Navy and Air Force. Besides performing military duties, the ""Marechaussee"" is also a gendarmerie force. The word ""Marechaussee"" seems to derive from the old French name ""Marecheaux"" given to an ancient court of justice in Paris called the ""Tribunal of Constables and Marshals of France"". These constables and marshals were to become members of the Gendarmerie which served as a model for the police forces of both Belgium and the Netherlands. The term ""Marechaussee"" was also used for the US Army's military police during the American Revolution. Currently all Military Police duties operate under the newly established tri service unit"
"Flag of Martinique Martinique, an overseas territorial collectivity of France located in the Caribbean, has no flag with official status other than the French national flag. This flag features a white cross like St George’s cross on a blue background filled in with a white snake in each quarters. It is used sometimes by the French military on their buildings and/or uniforms. Gendarmes bear the Coat of Arms version of the flag. This flag dates from an edict issued 4 August 1766, specifying that vessels of the French Colony of Martinique and Saint Lucia should fly a version of the"
"the French-English border, King Henry V married Princess Katharine, daughter of Charles VI of France. <br>At the end of September and at the beginning of October 2006, Marquise was at the top of current events, on prime time television, when the local gendarmerie retrieved a famous painting by Maurice Boitel, stolen forty years before and taken out of France. Marquise, Pas-de-Calais Marquise is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France. Marquise is a farming, quarrying and light industrial town, situated some northeast of Boulogne, at the junction of the D191, D231 and D238 roads. The"
"competent for judging military personnel and civilians alike in cases of petty violations of the law. The term ""Maréchaussée"" was also used for the Continental Army's military police during the American Revolution. In the present-day Netherlands, the ""Koninklijke Marechaussee"" (""Royal Marshalcy"") is a national military police force with civilian competences, similar to the French ""Gendarmerie nationale"". In the United States, ""marshal"" is used particularly for various types of law enforcement officers. The federal court system in the United States is organized into 94 federal judicial districts, each with a court (and one or several judges), a United States Attorney with"
"guerrillas. They rejected the term ""réfractaire"" with its connotations of laziness and called themselves the ""maquis"", which originated as Corsican Italian slang for bandits, whose root word was ""macchia"", the term for the scrubland and forests of Corsica. Those who lived in the ""macchia"" of Corsica were usually bandits, and those men fleeing to the countryside chose the term ""maquis"" as a more romantic and defiant term than ""réfractaire"". By June 1943, the term ""maquis,"" which had been a little-known word borrowed from the Corsican dialect of Italian at the beginning of 1943, became known all over France. It was"
"has also developed a significant online presence including web versions of both magazines and a large online clothing & book store. Whereas it is true that the magazine's name derives from de Sade, the special interest addressed by the magazine is a poor match for the normal concept of ""sadism"" as casually understood by the layman. Marquis is very closely specialised on latex and PVC fetishism and related topics such as sexy girls in catsuits, advanced designs in bondage wear and other related fantasy scenarios. Marquis (magazine) Marquis is a fetish magazine owned, operated, published and primarily photographed by Peter"
"Marquise (film) Marquise is a 1997 French dramatic film directed by Véra Belmont, and starring Sophie Marceau, Bernard Giraudeau, and Lambert Wilson. Written by Jean-François Josselin, Véra Belmont, Marcel Beaulieu, and Gérard Mordillat, the film is about a glorious dancer and actress who rises from obscurity to win the hearts of some of France's most prominent citizens, including Moliere, Racine, and King Louis XIV. She is helped in her career by a rotund comic, who falls in love with her, marries her, and brings her to Paris to launch her career. Despite her intimate involvement with other men, she keeps"